History of the Peloponnesian War
Thucydides
Thucydides. The English works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury. Hobbes, Thomas. translator. London: John Bohn, 1843.
but the former lasted two years, insomuch as nothing afflicted the Athenians or impaired their strength more than it.
For the number that died of it of men of arms enrolled were no less than four thousand four hundred; and horsemen, three hundred; of the other multitude, innumerable.